如果执行的脚本是服务器上的PHP脚本，有没有办法忽略RewriteRule？

Question

I have a rewrite rule intended to route the users to my index.php if they visit my /images/* directory so that I can route this correctly and check user permissions before displaying the image.

However, the issue here is that when I try to display the image to the user, the call to display the image is being picked up by the RewriteRule too.

Is there a way to ignore the RewriteRule if the file executing is PHP/phtml?

My htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (/)?images/(.*)$ /index.php?request=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?request=$1 [L,QSA]

I'm looking for something like

if the file executing is not a PHP script/being called from the server:
    RewriteRule (/)?images/(.*)$ /index.php?request=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 1

You can use a RewriteCond to check if current request is not for .php:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule (/)?images/(.+)$ /index.php?request=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?request=$1 [L,QSA]